dieseltaylor Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 I like books and occasionally I get really good ones from my local library - in fact one is so good I have taken anecdotes and posted on the CMAK forum today- I had only got to page 62 so far. On Saturday I was at a local second-hand bookshop in Oxted just checking on the military stuff and was quite pleased to find a book by Delingapole [signed] on the 79th Armoured plus some others. On my way out I noticed some boxes on the pavement outside ---- military books £2 a pop! They had just bought someones collection. ***79th Armoured Division : Hobo's Funnies Accidental Warrior Artillery through the Ages ***August 1914 ***Battle of the Bulge 1944 Bombers of WW2 *** Churchill's Secret Weapons: Story of Hobart's Funnies Churchill's Wizards ***Crete: The Battle and the Resistance German Tanks of WW2 Guards VC : Blitzkreig 1940 Hist Maps WW2 Europe Historic Military Vehicles Directory Ill. Hist of WW1 & WW2 Airforces On the Psychology of Military Incompetence Only the Enemy In Front *** Patton's Third Army at War Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion WW2 ***Resisting the Nazi Invader Take These Men Tank Warfare in WW2 The Berlin Raids: RAF Winter 1943-44 ***The Blitz: Then & Now Vol1 ***The Churchill: Armour in Action Series The Fall of France: Act with Daring The Second WW in Colour Touchlines of War ***United States Tanks of WW2 US Tank & Tank Dest Batt. in the ETO ***Vanguard to Victory: The 79th Armoured Division War Behind Enemy Lines War on Wheels Only the ones with *** are the new ones. The rest of those are ones I have started to put on Google so me and mates do not duplicate books. Only probaly another 200 to load! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Belenko Posted May 24, 2010 Share Posted May 24, 2010 Lucky you. My local library sells used books too. I was getting a few WWII books every couple of weeks. $1 to $5. Then the local paper does a story on a 12 year old that is reading/buying WWII books. I think they now hide them in the back room until this kid comes in. There hasn't been a WWII book in there for the last 6 months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runyan99 Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Nice score. I used to live just outside an age restricted retirement community in Arizona. The local library had a book store, which was frequently refreshed with new inventory from the community. Either the snowbirds would donate books frequently, or a lot of collections of the deceased ended up there. Either way, I went there frequently to see what I could pick up for $1. Never had a whole collection like that though. I miss having that resource, but used books on Amazon is pretty good too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 ...used books on Amazon is pretty good too. Yes, and also ABE Books. They are really good with rare out of print military titles at reasonable prices, though sometimes I have had to buy from an out of country bookseller. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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